Re: Plugin For Console

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 17:37 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Carlos Mennens <carlos(dot)mennens(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Francisco Leovey <fleovey(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>> >> There is no need for a plugin, just click the SQl window button on the
>> >> pgAdmin3 taskbar
>> >
>> > The SQL window doesn't support \* 'psql' commands nor does it appear
>> > to support tab ahead typing. There appears to be a significant need
>> > for it versus the built-in SQL editor.
>>
>> The SQL window isn't intended to replicate the features of psql - it
>> has it's own feature set. The plugin is installed by default - it
>> should work out of the box on Windows and Mac, on Linux you may need
>> to install psql and configure the PG Bin Path option under File ->
>> Options to point to the directory containing the psql binary.
>>
>
> Completely agree on the SQL window.
>
> About the psql plugin, I had one other report telling me that it isn't
> available when you install pgAdmin 1.14.1.

It works for me, on a fresh installation to a clean virtual machine.

What I had forgotten though, is that the selected item on the treeview
must be a connected database or a child object of one - otherwise the
plugin is disabled because there's no way to know what database to
connect to.

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